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NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1966. !ATlANTA NE~ROE~ I RIOT AfTER POU~E WOUND A~U~PE~ Tear Gas and Gunfire Cur Angry Crowd-Mayor Is Toppled From Auto By GENE ROBERTS SptdalttJThtNewYortTlmPI A'JJLANTA, Sept, 8-Rioting Negroes fought the police with bricks and bottles today and toppled the city's Mayor from the roof Of a car when he at- 1 ~ led to calm th<\11- The pollce quelled the vlo Jenee by tossing canisters of tear gas and repeatedly firing pistols and riot guns above the heads of the Negroes. At least a aozen Negroes, two' ot them members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the militant civil rights organlza.tion, were taken into custody by the police. The disturbance was touched off In midaftemoon after the Police shot and seriously wounded a. Negro who Willi sus• pected of car theft. Cry for 'Black Power' Within three hours ot the shooting more than 4~ Negroes, tnclutllng several members of the ~ were rushing through m!!!S,e. the streets shouting "Black power- police brutality." One police car was overturn@() and windows were smashed in several others. When Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. rushed to the scene and climbed ' upon & police car to talk to the rioters, they surged toward him and rocked the car &Cain &nd again until the Mayor, !b.aken but uninjured, tumbled to the street. The 55-year-oJd Mayor scrambled to his feet and then raced about the riot area, which Is only two blocks from the new $18-milllon Atla:nta: Stadliml. "Go h ome," be pleaded "Please go home." "Don't go-slay here and protest police brutality," said lpembers ot the student committee, who walked behind the :Mayor, The police said Stokely carmlchael, the committee's 25year-old chairman, had reached tree-lined Capitol Avenue soon atter the shooting and told Negroes that "we're going to be back at 4 P.M. and tear this place up." Two members of t h e ~ ~ . Wlllie Ware and Bob Walton, were taken into custody by the police while touring the area ln a sound truck, urging Negroes to gather to protest the shooting, '-rhey were bringing different people into the area," Sgt D. J. Perry, a Negro Police officer, told newsmen, "and they were saying that the man had been shot whJle handcuffed and that he wa..s murdered by white 1 police." The police dented lions. The wounded Louis Prather, was reported by ' a spokesman at Grady Memo- C<Gllnued ~ Colwnn I ~f T t. U - -·· ..... .Lct-.:.1~ �Un lttd Pms Jnttmatlona l Clblrphoto AT LANTA i\l A \'OR AT IU OT SCJ•:N~: Mayor Inn .Allen Jr .• right, holding handker• chief a fter police used tea r gas, gestures to N'ei;ro residents to enter their homes. Ea rlier, he had been toppled fro m a pat rol ca r aft er he had mounted it to address an angry crowd , ATLANTA NEGROES BATTLE POLICEMEN Continued From r age J, Col, 4 rial Hospital to be in "poor condition." 'An E:q1lo11h·e Art:,' "This is an explosive area and th~ [the police] come down here and shoot a. Neg·ro. Good God almighty," said Cleveland Sellers, t he stude9t conv ~ ' > project and , program director. "People here arc just reacting to police brutali ty." Otlier s.N.C.C. officials on Gapitol .\_venue during the rioting were Mrs. Ruby Doris Robinson• executive sec retary of

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1 ~:naE,fe;d o~n~he zation's New York office. In the beginning, the missilethrowing was sporadic. But after the police used tear gas to rout a group of bottle throwers, Negroes hurled volley a fter vol• Icy of bricks and bottles. At one point, the police thre\\ tear gas into a home, whic they sai d had been a center of bottle throwing. A mother, he fi ve small children and her grandmother were forced into the street. The nearly hysterical mother, Mrs. Imogen-e I:;indley;-22---yean old, and the rest or her family, were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in an ambulance. Across the street f rom her house. a white sedan had been overturned and its windows kmashed. A resident of the N cgro district said that "some white fellows': had bcc11 in the car. Three Negro men stood on lhe curb nearby and watched two white men walk past. The Negroes chant: "It's gonna get dark after a.while." T he violence surprised Mayor Allen, one of the few Southern pffi cals who has advocated civil rights legislation. Except for tension in recent weeks between the police and advocates of the black power philossophy espoused by t he = an\ec,emJi\W:· .143.215.248.55 16:39, 29 December 2017 (EST)!3 b~.~~ tality" complaints that ha, e eightened tension in other ities. Atlanta desegregated its hools without incident five years ago under a Federal court order. Since then it has become known as one of the South's ode! cities in race relations. tlanta Negroes hold nine seats n the state Legislature and freely patronize most of the tity·s restaurants, movies an nightclubs. The rioting also stunn inany of the city's Negr leaders. The Rev. Martin Lut~e J{ing Sr., father of the c vi ights leader, and the R v. alph Abernathy, an aide to the younger Dr. King, toure he area after dark to help ead off any recurrence of th ftcmoon rioting. �